2 Tb limit

Dennis Glatting freebsd at penx.com
Sat Jan 14 04:27:01 UTC 2012


On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 19:48 -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote:
> Is there any way to create file systems bigger than 2Tb?
> I was hoping that a 64-bit OS may have this ability.
> 
> I have a ProLiant rack server which I installed a 4Tb raid
> -before- I discovered that I couldn't exceed 2Tb.

Hmm... 12-2.5TB drives in a RAIDz ZFS volume.

bd3> df -lh
Filesystem        Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/gpt/disk0    916G    7.2G    835G     1%    /
devfs             1.0k    1.0k      0B   100%    /dev
disk-1             24T    1.7G     24T     0%    /disk-1
disk-1/zvol        24T     53k     24T     0%    /disk-1/zvol




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